Feature Channels: Sports

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Personalized care program for former NFL players launches with cardiology, orthopedics & bariatrics/weight management.

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U.K. effort to regulate adventure sports reveals different approaches to ensuring safety

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Exercise and sport science researcher says the players for the Ravens and 49ers could have been given better advice for staying loose when the lights went out.

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Forget “slow and steady wins the race.” A new study shows that, at least sometimes, the best way to conserve energy and reach your destination on time is to alternate between walking and running—whether your goal is the bus stop or a marathon finish line.

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Siblings who are close as adults — like head coaches Jim Harbaugh and John Harbaugh, who will clash in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3 — are less likely to be depressed and have higher blood pressure over the long haul, says a Baylor researcher.

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Long before the team matchups are even finalized, Super Bowl fans can begin rooting for their favorite — commercial, that is. More and more, advertisers are thinking outside the television box and putting their spots on social media ahead of the big game.

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A Wake Forest University expert in the public figure apology says Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah does not present a real apology. John Llewellyn suggests Armstrong find a trusted advisor to redeem his reputation.

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A philosophy and ethics professor at the University of Indianapolis says the cyclist's behavior, even in admitting his violations, reflects our society's win-at-all-costs mentality.

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Lance Armstrong’s much-anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey has raised many questions about why he has now admitted to doping and whether or not his reputation can ever be rehabilitated. McMaster University has experts available to comment on several elements of this unfolding story.

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Will an interview with Oprah Winfrey be the apology that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong needs for redemption? Wake Forest University communications and public relations expert John Llewellyn takes a dim view, likening Armstrong's actions to corruption on Wall Street.

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Ten NFL head coaches were fired this week, but a study by a University of Iowa economist finds the league's Rooney Rule does little to help increase the number of African-American head coaches.

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Image series and other data help researchers shed new light on the rare and devastating condition of second impact syndrome.

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Butler University President James Danko issued a statement today in response to the recent Big East Conference realignment announcement which has led to some media speculation that Butler University is a potential candidate to join the “Catholic 7” universities in a new athletic league.

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With a single social-media misstep, student-athletes could lose athletic eligibility or a scholarship. But that’s not stopping them from using Twitter – sometimes even during games, when they may see harsh criticism of their performances from fans, according to a study by Baylor University and Clemson University researchers.

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What started out as a project to teach undergraduate students about network analysis, turned into an in-depth study of whether it was possible to analyze a National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball team’s strategic interactions as a network. Arizona State University researchers discovered it is possible to quantify both a team’s cohesion and communication structure.

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